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Alan Ituriel The Creator Of Cartoon Network Latin America’s Villainous Will Be Making A Guest Appearance At Argentina Comic-Con 2018

Alan Ituriel, the creator of Cartoon Network Latin America’s short-form animated series – Villainous will be making a guest appearance at Argentina Comic-Con 2018 on Saturday 26th May. This year’s Argentina Comic-Con will be held at the Centro Costa Salguero convention center in Buenos Aires from Friday 25th May to Sunday 27th May. Alan Ituriel was discovered by Cartoon Network at the 2014 Pixelatl animation festival in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where he pitched his show idea at the festival’s IdeaToon competition, he was later given the opportunity to develop Villainous into a short-form animated series. Alan also works as a director, storyboard artist, 2D animator and writer on the show, he also voices Black Hat – the evil leader of the Black Hat Organization. The Black Hat Organization is a company that sells robots and gadgets to villains.

Yesterday, the show celebrated its first anniversary with a special episode, the episode can be viewed on Cartoon Network Latin America’s YouTube channel. In addition to core animated series, there’s also a side-series on CN Latin America’s YouTube channel where Black Hat reviews the villains of various Cartoon Network shows called “Orientation Videos for Villains”.

At Argentina Comic-Con 2018 there will also be a combined Adventure Time/Rick and Morty stand and on Sunday 27th May, convention attendees will have the opportunity to meet and greet the characters of Cartoon Network including Finn, Jake, Ice King and Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time and Mordecai and Rigby from Regular Show.

Cartoon Network Latin America’s Villainous Celebrates Its First Anniversary: Evil Is Our Business And Business Is Good

Twelve months today (15th May), the short-form animated series – Villainous made its debut on Cartoon Network Latin America and to celebrate, the Black Hat Organization’s resident scientist – Dr. Flug has made a TV advert for the organization. The ad showcases the organization, explains its history and shows some of its satisfied villain customers, however, Black Hat isn’t very impressed by the advert.

Happy anniversary from BH Org and myself! Thanks so much to all of you who have supported Villainous all through this first year that we've been invading your screens, it means the world to all of us in the crew. You guys are the best! https://t.co/hGiUsg6OVA

It’s a busy week for Chilean animation fans, as Chilemonos Animation Festival 2018 and Chile Comic Con 2018 are running at the same time, plus there’s Cartoon Network events at both!

Tomorrow (12th May), the creator of Cartoon Network’s Cow and Chicken and I am Weasel – David Feiss will be speaking at the Chilemonos Animation Festival, the special masterclass event will take place at the Gabriela Mistral Cultural Centre in Santiago at 3pm, a Question and Answer session with David Feiss was already held on Wednesday 9th May.

This year’s Chilemonos Animation Festival started on Tuesday 8th May and will end tomorrow (Saturday 12th May). Cartoon Network Latin America held their third annual animation pitch contest at Chilemonos’ MAI (Spanish acronym: Mercado de Animación Industria, English: Animation Industry Market) yesterday (10th May), this was an opportunity for aspiring animated show creators to pitch their ideas to Cartoon Network.

Cartoon Network will be at Chile Comic Con 2018 this weekend starting from today (Friday 11th, Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th May), the convention is held at the Espacio Riesco convention centre in Santiago. Cartoon Network is also sponsoring the event.